Teams may still be fishing bikes out of the ditches and waterways surrounding De Panne after crosswinds and crashes wreaked havoc at Thursday's third round of the Women's WorldTour Classic Brugge-De Panne on Thursday. Jessica Allen (Team BikeExchange) was involved in the first of some five or six falls throughout the women's 158.8km race between Brugge and De Panne. Chabbey's teammate Lisa Klein also crashed earlier in the race but the team later confirmed that both riders only sustained minor injuries. "Both Lisa Klein and Elise Chabbey who came down in separate crashes today have minor injuries only," Canyon-SRAM stated. Although she did not finish the race, she was at the finish line to congratulate her teammate Brown on a gutsy solo victory in De Panne.

Source: The Local March 25, 2021 19:23 UTC